Southampton’s trio Band of Skulls (bass/vocals Emma Richardson, guitars/vocals Russell Marsden and drummer Matt Hayward) is returning to Minneapolis next Sunday, September 11th, promoting their new album By Default (BMG).

The new record, produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith), was recorded at Rockfield Studios (which looked like it was recorded in a church, looking at the album’s cover).

Har Mar Superstar (aka Sean Tillmann) is back with Best Summer Ever. The album will be available April 15, 2016 on Cult Records, LLC... but you can expect to hear preview of the new songs on this upcoming show on Wednesday
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Musician and filmmaker Adam Green is bringing his Adam Green’s Aladdin Concert and Movie Tour to Minneapolis on September 10 and 11.

If you don’t know who Adam Green is, he is one-half of The Moldy Peaches (the other half being Kimya Dawson), a duo that we wrote about in 2008. Never heard of Moldy Peaches either? If you saw that Ellen Page/Michael Cera film Juno (which we wrote about in 2007), you may recall hearing the both of them sing a Moldy Peaches song ‘Anyone Else But You’.

On Saturday, September 10th, Adam Green (and his band) will play a live show at the Icehouse in Minneapolis. Additional details here: icehousempls.com. Sean Na Na (led by Har Mar Superstar) to open.

NOTE: Typical Icehouse shows starts at 11pm, which means Green won’t be on stage until after midnight, so technically he’ll be playing September 11th.

Speaking of September 11th, on Sunday, there will be a special screening and Q&A of Adam Green’s Aladdin at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. I believe there will be a full band playing a live soundtrack to the film.

Monday, 14 April 2008

Well while we're on the topic of Juno... Funny story really (ok, typically tedious, but I gotta make it look like I put in the effort, you know?) - while skipping through Ukemeister Afton's latest youtube efforts I came accross one for Anything Else But You. Like the uninformed social recluse I am, I had no idea what was on the Juno soundtrack, and made a comment much ruder than it sounded along the lines of "Moldy Peaches did a much better version of this..." not having realised that the afton was in fact just doing her usual thouroughly thought through bastardised cover of the actual moldy peaches track. So I looked like a twat. Again. But hey, who was I to know that a film released last christmas would use the tracks of a band whom as far as I knew released their last material some time around 2003 while I was still in college, and broke up shortly thereafter? Even more shocking was seeing Kimya playing at film premiers, and her name spoken by non other than Mr WHM himself. I guess they ain't dead. So, now that I look like I've done something useful....

The Moldy Peaches. Circa 2003 and apparently 2008. Consisting of 5+ nutters (I never figured it out...), originating in NYC and playing something known as Anti-Folk. I've included County Fair, an old single, and Nothing Came Out, one of Kimya's sadder solo efforts. And I feel I need say no more as the below picvid pretty much does all the talking. You know, I once promised to go to my first Crimea gig dressed similarly to Adam... And I'm told both Kimya and Adam's solo albums are extremely good.